DPReview on CreativeLIVE

We're very excited to announce a day of live video coverage on Monday December 2nd in partnership with CreativeLIVE. The live stream, which will be broadcast on our homepage will cover product highlights from the past year, as well as live shooting demonstrations and panels discussing the current state of the photography market, and predictions for the future.

Monday, December 2, 2013 at 9:00am PST

During the broadcast, DPReview’s team of experts will outline which cameras work best for specific kinds of photography - from portrait to travel to sports. During live demonstrations, DPReview’s editors will partner with professional photographers to demonstrate how to build a home portrait studio, and share tips on getting great photos.

Our panel discussions will focus on technology trends, and predictions for the future of digital imaging. As well as DPReview editors we'll be inviting industry figures to give their opinions, and answer your questions.

We're really looking forward to it (albeit with a degree of trepidation) and we hope you'll join us on the day. Coverage starts at 9am (PST) but even if you miss the live broadcast the segments will be archived and available to replay.

If you'd like to suggest a question, or topic for discussion for our December 2nd live event, please feel free to leave a comment on this story or email us.

Comments

Let's hope and pray that Panasonic would learn a lesson from Fuji, and issue a firmware update for the FZ200.

Two major issues are accepting 64GB SDHC cards (not SDXC) with newer format (eX?), just like Samsung products accept such cards, and improve the very frustrating, very poor control of the manual focus.

If that doesn't happen, I promise that this will be my last Panasonic camera.

Tried watching two different times. I simply couldn't get past the first minute or so. Too much chatter about nothing (reminds me of the two annoying announcers sitting behind a desk at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade just making small talk and attempting to be funny and interesting) and when you finally started talking about photography and gear, I was bored with the gear discussed. I would much rather see video broadcasts recorded, grouped by topic/specific gear, so I can choose from a library of topics and avoid most of what doesn't apply to me and my interests. I would love the broadcast to stay on topic and on point. Watching a webcam of your office studio with a bunch of people talking about whatever (oh, this is great, that is great, this is awesome, don't you think this is awesome?, look at all these cameras, etc) doesn't interest me. I am left feeling as though I could waste 30mins of watching live video only to get about 30secs of info that might interest me.

I caught some of the rebroadcast and want to say thank you. There was a lot of helpful advice, both in considering a gift as well as getting back into the hobby. It was particularly interesting to see how much has changed and even how much hasn't, as I did all my "serious" photography on film and got away from it, mainly taking out my 35mm SLRs for special events and trips over the last few years while also using a digital point and shoot for snapshots. I might have to get a mirrorless system.

I'm German, but have been living in the US and now the UK for years, which probably helps. Barnaby is using sophisticated language and expressions different from American English. This may be part of the problem. Remember that these people are not professional TV presenters, but writers and technology experts. I thought that they did a very good job after overcoming their initial shyness.

Looking more a bit into the camera may have been nice, but I actually liked the fact that they were not slick and overly emotive.

The conference hosts certainly made up for any lack of TV professionalism, but to my taste they veered too much into an overly excited infomercial presentation style (sadly also to be found in many US news channels). I looked at one of their own web-courses, and have to say that I found its vapid commercialist hype totally nauseating, had to tune out quickly. Hope dpreview stays away from this style!

Is this going to be offered for free by the Creative Live website? Right now it says "Enjoy this free workshop!", but they could just be referring to the rebroadcast going on now. I keep missing the first segment because of my schedule.

Sorry, just saw a reply below that says it will be archived and available.

Is anyone else having a problem with the video overlay for DPReview Live on the main page appearing on top of the menus? The menus slide under the video overlay as I hover on different items, so I can't click on most of them.

As a workaround I select any arbitrary menu item, and once the browser navigates away from the main page, I access the menu again and go where I wanted to go in the first place.

Oh what a treat for us camera-geeks, guys! To see the dpreview people and to have these great guest stars! I watched it live at work and now I am watching it again for the 2d time! How about you guys do it at least once a year, and maybe twice a year???? Everyone did a great job. Congratulations!

By the way, no Otus on hand? You guys out of all people should have at least one sample!

Also how about for the next time, show us some really expensive gear, like Leica 50 0.95 and other things most people have never seen in person.

Just finished catching up to the point I started watching after getting in from work, and I have to say I enjoyed it. The studio lighting section in the middle felt a bit out of place, but I found so much of the focus (no pun intended) on CSCs and other cameras like the Sony Q series disappointing, but unsurprising. It was said during the broadcast CSCs don't match up to DSLRs in terms of sales, but the variety and push from manufacturers and reviewers in camera mags and sites like DPReview, to some extent, see CSC cameras as a means to boost flagging camera sales, which is in every seller and reviewers best interest. The market seems to be saying that those who were interested in in the concept have pretty much got it, and the sales falling faster than DSLRs seem to back that up, even with all the various CSC options.

Hopefully there will be more similar types of event from DPReview. I thought the staff did a great job, and displayed a v good level of knowledge in a relaxed style.

only caught about 15 minutes but well impressed by the effort. so much info to cover in little time. i agree with segaman that this type of live or recorded video forum would be a great way to review specific cameras, lenses, and gear. hands on live and fielding questions from members online.(and who was that cute mute girl in the middle?)

On a Unix system, Dev Null (/dev/null) is a special file that discards all data written to it, but provides no data to any process that reads from it, kind of like a black hole. So the character's name is an inside programming joke.

Good sound or not, I wish he’d been given a last minute to explain why mirrorless cameras aren’t selling as well as technology experts think they should. The answers from the Samsung and Ricoh reps rang true, but I would have liked to hear Sony’s take on it too.

@Samuel: the mirrorless that aren't selling well are the Nikon-1 and understandably so. and the Sony a7 siblings are already putting a lot of pressure on Canon and Nikon who just wouldn't let go of mirror boxes for the larger sensors and were delaying as much as possible the release of their replacement mirrorless lines. That is a tactic to maximize profits, and cash in on planned obsolescence as much as possible, that may turn against them. Sony has everything to gain here, and canikon have everything to lose, because they'd have to "admit" that mirrorless is a natural evolution of the camera... staying in denial helps propagate ignorance and benefits them. I say that it may turn against them, because this is a significant opportunity that Sony is seizing to gain mindshare and market share, by embracing technology more readily, and doing it in a very smart fashion.

> Sony a7 siblings are already putting a lot of pressure on Canon and Nikon who just wouldn't let go of mirror boxes for the larger sensors

Have you actually looked at something like Amazon's "Top 100 Digital Cameras"? Not a single CSC to be found anywhere in the list. The idea that Canon and Nikon have to change ANYTHING because of the A7 or any other mirrorless camera is one that doesn't match the reality of camera sales in 2013 at all.

Just when you finish a sentence, don't lower your voice, it weakens the statement that you're trying to make and is kind of hard to hear in the studio anyway.

Ballsy first effort. Except Simon.

Simon, a FOURTY-FIVE minute break? C'mon, why don't you keep those people chained to their desk and serve them a bowl of gruel served in tin plates carelessly, yet passive-aggressively spooned in by a lady named Helga?

Thank you for the tactful intelligent answers to "why sin by not including a viewfinder" type question. Some people just want it all at the price of the cheaper product, choosing to ignore that their favourite manufacturer DOES offer a camera model for them with that VF, but they'd rather complain about every model that doesn't have one. These columns are just poisoned by people with bad attitudes - a bit like religious fanatics who just won't let others live in a different way than they want to impose them to.

Those weren't our instructions, but it's also important to remember we're writers by choice, so some of us are taking a big risk just walking on stage. When you're used to being behind the lens as a photographer and being able to carefully choose your word as a writer, speaking glibly in front of the lens and lights is a challenge, to say the least. Thanks for the feedback though. We'll learn.

The wide camera was positioned too high, so was looking at the top of your heads even before you leaned into the gear table. The CU camera could have moved between BCU and MCU while the wide camera was active. Then you wouldn't have been trying to do two jobs with the wide camera. How big was the crew? was anyone directing the camera operators?

It's way harder to present than most folk realise. Your tongue swells up and ties itself in a knot. So well done guys. And edited highlights would be nice for the archives.

I was watching the first segment and I liked seeing the people working for DPR in flesh instead of "Amazon cyborgs" often portrayed here. Good show!

I think that Allison's perspective on GM1 was priceless from practical point of view. Quite a contribution in better understanding the today's high expectation from best compact systems in a small form factor.

I would also like to see more of Shawn Barnett who was modestly unassuming during the broadcast. Hopefully, next time around.

All in all I think that this is a great initiative and should be by any means continued. Thank you!

Congrats to the project, realy very nice to look at and continue to this very good idea, some less formal presentation in studio is a nice idea, I know that being in real time in front of the cameras is somewhat uncomfortably, but must take a more laid back attitude, maintaining the objective of the project. Keep the good work! oh I love that table :)

I am usually very critical of this site and the direction it has taken since amazon bought it.But I can only congratulate you on this project. Sure, the staff isn't used to be on camera but they are doing really well. Good selection of cameras, good host, good stream quality, very enjoyable and interesting.

I'm a pretty experienced photographer, but I don't think those presentations were too elemental for me. Sure, I knew a lot of that already, but it was instructive to see the DPReview staff actually handling and responding to the cameras. It's one thing to read a review and another to see a gleam in the eyes when the photog picks up the camera.

I also was reminded along the way of a couple of things I know, but which I forgot to include in my shopping decision. I'm in the market for a new system and this helped. Thanks, DPR

Some of us would just love to have a compact, affordable, black&white camera. Imagine one of the enthusiast compacts, with a modest-sized sensor, and the quality it would produce without the filter array in front of it. Something with a 1" sensor, or one of the Fuji 2/3"Doing B+W with a color sensor is just too grainy.

I don't see the pertinence of the Nikon1 system, for two reasons: Olympus offers some very small MFT cameras with a much much larger sensor, and Sony has the RX100ii that really takes away from the need for the 1-system. If you are going to talk about the 1 system, why not talk about the waterproof version? That definitely fills a much needed niche.

This was pretty awful. I stood about half a minute of the rubbish presentation. The video is disjointed, stopping after about 5 seconds and waiting for the download to catch up. This happened every 5 seconds, so made it almost impossible to watch. Pausing it, unlike professionally run video sites, did not allow the whole video to down load in order that I could watch it seamlessly.

Completely pointless. Even the little I was able to see seemed to be aimed at 9 year olds.

Brian, we're sorry the streaming wasn't working too well for you. That's one of the pain points of streaming video, it is difficult for us to control the quality for all our viewers. Thanks for giving it a shot and for the feedback.

I won't be looking, thanks, the whole idea of websites delivering a sequential information flow that is controlled by the presenter not the viewer who has to wait for it as it comes, is like a TV paradigm that, for me, the whole point of the internet is to circumvent.

I do find it very annoying to see all the DPR staff happily popping in for comments in the comments section of this article. Annoying because they are so rarely seen in the comments sections of articles generally, even when the content of articles is under strong discussion. Pick up your game, boys and girls, and put your time into ALL the articles and their follow up, not just this one.

Then pop over to the GX7 review comments and sort out the utter debacle over the scoring of the camera compared to the deficient E-P5 with blurry images and no EVF at all, and the E-M5 with zero connectivity and no flash and poor video (still a current model, so GX7 score should be relative to its).

Sure, I'll bite. It's a review. It's not a math problem. The scores add up to what they do. Then we assign an award based on the experience. That you didn't like the outcome is not a surprise. It's what we thought of the camera. We had it here, and we've handled hundreds of cameras. If you don't value that opinion, that's okay. There are other review sites that will glow about every camera they encounter with impressive specs. Go check them out. That we didn't score it highly as you like does not mean it's not a great or usable camera; we just didn't like it as much as you'd like. It's our job to be honest about what we think. It is not our job to please every reader.

Thanks for biting, Shawn. But you are still avoiding the issues I raised. How on earth does this camera get the same score as an Olympus camera that inexplicably causes unexpected BLURRINESS IN STILL IMAGES!??! And that has NO EVF AT ALL!??! And POOR VIDEO??!!!Think about it.

Also, The EM5 which is awarded Gold and is its category winner in your 2013 awards this week, has zero connectivity (a big issue for pros and semi pros, and even the general modern person), and no inbuilt flash (clip-ons, oh please), and poor video (just like you rated the E-P5 video), and a poor grip (or a large and expensive vertical grip that renders the camera NOT SMALL AT ALL).

It makes one wonder whether the reviewers pick the camera up for the first time, heft it, look at it, and say "hmmmmmm.......................nup!" Then proceed to piece together what they imagine to be an unbiased review.

You guys can't pretend you have a blank sheet for each score and think WE don't compare them! Time to confess.

I'm just curious as to why you guys blatantly refuse to talk about Samsung. Your owners Amazon sell the line. They have some nice value models in MILC. For example, the NX20 competes with the other MILC, offers better resolution than most models (just not Sony nex7), and they have some very nice lenses! I'm just totally in love with the new 45mm f1.8They have their faults, of course. But in terms of bang for the buck... last year I paid $400 for an NX20 (body). Compare that with the $800-$1500 for other MILC cameras with as much controls, tilt screen, viewfinder (and most often 16mp instead of 20mp).

PS: mind you, in all fairness, I get it, that you can't cover every camera. but you did include samples from every manufacturer except that one.

We definitely are not avoiding Samsung, we've even invited them today to be a part of our panel discussion so stay tuned in! I think the reality is that there is a crowded and competitive market and not every camera gets the spotlight.

That's great! I'm looking forward to that. :-)That will be a nice change from the website's tradition.Fact is, you have people who will pay any price for a more durable and finely refined Mercedes, and you have those that are seeking bang for the buck (especially with things being obsoleted so fast). And Samsung fits in to the latter category. You need to cater to what the people want, or lose traffic.

But folk who visit DP Review are generally quite knowledgeable about photography, so do we really need to have all that elementary stuff in "Product roundups..." explained? I watched for two minutes then went elsewhere.

We'll be working our way up through the classes and experience levels, but we do have to speak to the products and technology in a manner that doesn't assume too much about the viewer's familiarity with the gear. Either way, thanks for the feedback John!

Does anyone know when this will be rebroadcast? I am in Seoul and won't be able to see it at 2:00 AM, although will give a try. Creative Live usually rebroadcasts directly after the live event same day, but I would also miss that. Will it be broadcast a third or more times?

I checked Creative's website but couldn't find the info.

Thanks for any help; really looking forward to this and also really support the idea.

I would prefer the devellopment of a good dpreview app for the ipad and android tablets. At the moment I cannot even judge the challenge entries via a tablet. Life action may be great but like TV it requires your attention at a specific time. I gave up on TV many years ago.

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